The provision of services for Alzheimer's patients in Dublin's northside is a matter in the first instance for the Eastern Health Board. I understand from the Eastern Health Board that there are two day centres on the north side which specially cater for those suffering from Alzheimer's – St. Gabriel's, Edenmore, and Sybil Hill, Raheny, both of which are funded or part-funded by the health board.
In community care areas 6 and 7, the department of psychiatry of old age offers a range of services for patients who develop a functional mental illness and Alzheimer's after age 65 while the general psychiatric service caters for patients under 65 with a functional illness and Alzheimer's. In excess of 100 beds are available to the psychiatry of old age services and there is also access to a limited number of contract private nursing home places. There is also access to psychiatric beds to patients under 65 with a mental illness and Alzheimer's through their catchment area service.